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第11回(1965年) nominee
Michimasa Sato
さとう みちまさ
Sato Michimasa
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1943-01-02 (Mizusawa, Iwate Prefecture (now Ōshū))
- 国籍
- Japan
- 言語
- Japanese
- 居住地歴
- Mizusawa (now Ōshū), Iwate Prefecture, Japan → Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
経歴
- 職業
- tanka poet, literary critic, children's literature researcher, school teacher, editor
- 活動期間
- 1966年〜
- 影響を受けた人物
- Kenji Miyazawa, Hakushū Kitahara
- ノミネート
- Kadokawa Tanka Prize candidate (1965)
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iwate Prefectural Mizusawa High School | — | — | — | — | Japan |
| Tohoku University, Faculty of Education | Faculty of Education | — | — | — | Japan |
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Kadokawa Tanka Prize (candidate) | Aomi | — | Kadokawa | candidate |
| 1971 | Japan Association of Children's Literature Writers Newcomer Award | On Niimi Nankichi's Fairy Tales | — | Japan Association of Children's Literature Writers | winner |
| 1986 | Japan Society for Children's Literature Award (Encouragement Prize) | The Formation of Japanese Children's Literature: An Introduction | — | Japan Society for Children's Literature | encouragement |
| 2000 | Miyazawa Kenji Prize | Miyazawa Kenji: On the Engineer at the Tohoku Quarry | — | Miyazawa Kenji Prize Committee | winner |
| 2012 | Museum of Modern Poetry Award (Tanka Division) | Kyousou (Strong Frost) | 短歌 | Museum of Modern Poetry | winner |
| 2022 | Saitō Mokichi Tanka Literary Prize | Kishibe (Shore) | 短歌 | Saitō Mokichi Prize Committee | winner |
受賞・候補エディション
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第4回(1971年) award
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第27回(2012年) tanka
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第52回(2018年) nominee
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第57回(2023年) nominee
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第34回(2022年) award
作品
代表作
The Edge of Water (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
1978年 tanka collectionAn early tanka collection containing poems that sensitively depict Tohoku landscapes and everyday life.
Ragged Diary (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
1982年 tanka collectionA mid-career collection of tanka reflecting details of daily life and experiences from the educational field.
Kyousou (Strong Frost)
2011年 tanka collectionA late collection notable for its austere, muted expressions. Winner of the Museum of Modern Poetry Award (Tanka Division) in 2012.
Kishibe (Shore)
2022年 tanka collectionA recent collection of poems that gaze at the edges and boundaries of life; awarded the Saitō Mokichi Tanka Literary Prize.
全著作
- On Niimi Nankichi's Fairy Tales: The Arrival of the Self-Abandoner
- Valley of Twilight
- Burning Snow
- The Edge of Water (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- Hakushū's Nursery Rhymes
- The Literary World of Kenji Miyazawa: Tanka and Fairy Tales
- Ragged Diary (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- The Present State of 'Education'
- The Formation of Japanese Children's Literature: An Introduction
- Adolescence Elegy (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- Hakushū Kitahara: Taishō-Period Nursery Rhymes and Their Development
- Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato (Sasagoya Modern Tanka Library)
- Places of Students and Teachers
- Modern Tanka in Horizontal Writing
- To the Magnetic Field of Children
- What Will Become of Schools?
- Real-Time Tanka Theory
- From Kenji Miyazawa to 'Kenji Miyazawa'
- Bidō (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- The Poet Mado Michio
- Tenshin (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- Miyazawa Kenji: On the Engineer at the Tohoku Quarry
- Back and Forth (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- Tanka as a Crevasse
- Premonition (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- Toward Miyazawa Tanka
- Notes on Mokichi: Reading Criticism
- Kyousou (Strong Frost)
- Mukasuko (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- Rentō (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- Alkali-Colored Clouds
- Kishibe (Shore)
作風・主題
- 文体
- concise, condensed tanka expressioninterpretive criticism grounded in children's literature and fairy taleslyricism rooted in Tohoku landscapes
- 頻出モチーフ
- Kenji MiyazawaHakushū Kitaharaedges of seasonseducational settingsmemory and boundaries
評価・遺産
He contributed to tanka poetry and children's literature research from a Tohoku-rooted perspective, leaving a lasting influence in poetry circles and children's literature studies. He is recognized for both criticism/research and creative work and has won multiple awards.
関連学会
- Japan Society for Children's Literature
- Museum of Modern Poetry (associated)
資料所蔵先
- Rojyo Press (archives of the magazine 'Rojyo')
豆知識
- Founded the independently edited literary magazine 'Rojyo' in 1966; the first series ended with issue 120 and the second series continued; the magazine concluded with issue 150 in 2021.
- Long-serving selector for the Kahoku Shimpo tanka page (reported as about 33 years).
- Known not only as a tanka poet but also as a researcher and critic of children's literature and figures such as Kenji Miyazawa and Hakushū Kitahara.